I recently learned how people in the past commonly used onions to treat and prevent general illnesses, including things like an earache. Onions were even used back in the days of the Black Plague and the Spanish flu — they were some of the survivors.
Onions prevent disease because they absorb pathogens, and there are powerful anti-bacterial and anti-viral properties, in the fresh juice and the vapors.
You can treat an earache in two ways; one way is by holding the warmed-up onion against the sore ear, and the other way is by extracting the fresh juice from the onion and dropping this into your ear passage directly.
It doesn’t matter what kind of onion you use; red, white, brown, or yellow they all fight bacteria and viruses.
Sooth your earache with a warm onion
This video explains how to warm a quarter onion in a microwave or oven, wrap it in a towel, and then press it against the painful ear for 20 minutes, or until the earache subsides. The vapors will enter the ear and then the ache should soon subside.
If this does not work, you might want to take the next step and apply the potent onion juice directly onto the inflamed ear infection.
Treat your ear infection with onion juice
By squeezing a fresh onion, grating, or pressing in a garlic press, extract the juice and pick out any chunks – you don’t want them in your ear.
Next, use a teaspoon or a dropper and drop a few drops down into your ear canal, wriggling your ears as you do – to ensure the liquid gets down deep.
If you have used olive oil in your ear before, and you feel comfortable doing it this way, mix the juice into a little olive oil first, then pour that into your ear.
Ear infections are best treated when caught early, so try these two methods as soon you feel the first twinges of pain – you might be able to cancel that doctor’s appointment!
The writer of this story is not a medical professional, and the information that is in this story has been collected from reliable sources and every precaution has been taken to ensure its accuracy. The information provided is for general information purposes only and should not be substituted for professional health care.
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